Hidely's solution to keeping pics of your unmentionables unmentioned is to skip Cloud storage and servers entirely. Instead, your pics are stored in a virtual lockbox on your phone, and other users are given a onetime-use password to access them. It also wipes pics from your camera roll, making sure they're only stored (in encrypted form) in the app. It basically means that would-be hackers couldn't steal them by accessing remote servers or (as was the case in the Snappening) through exploits in third-party apps.

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Hidely's idea sounds great in theory, but as history has proven, calling your product "unhackable" is just painting a giant target on your back for hackers.